Greetings all !! I'm new on the forum and am finding my way around. Forgive me !! I posted some info on "Trips to KNP" and have only now found this section on Old Photos. I may have some photos which go back to the 1950s and a bit later. My grandfather had 8 mm movies of KNP in the late 40s (you cant believe how the old Fords with their biscuit thin tyres got around ) and 16 mm movies from the 50s and 60s but most were destroyed in a flood some years ago But I may still have some pics of KNP in the 60s and 70s --- there are a few pics of Rabelais camp maybe 50 years ago and also of Nwanedzi camp which was only 20 odd years ago. Will have a search when I return from KNP as a bit busy in next week visiting JHB from western cape --- and then from 10 May till 21 May will be in KNP !!!! The lions seemed a lot bigger in those days

Love the photo's too and can place the location in the camp (Skukuza) in many of the instances as well.And the cars of my childhood - Citroen ID19 , Zephyr 6 , Austin 1100 and Vauxhall Velox. I wish I could remember the license plate codes - TBJ for the Citroen. I wonder where they were from?

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What an amazing trip back in time these old photo’s are Those days were different in many ways I think and one of them is that there was no computer technology available and to communicate with family or friends must have taken ages by postcard or letter but I guess the ‘Tiekie Box” made it kind of possible . I guess a person had to go through some kind of “telephone exchange” in Skukuza perhaps and continually dropped money in the money box

“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”

KNP is sacred.I am opposed to the modernisation of Kruger and from the depths of my soul long for the Kruger of yesteryear! 1000+km on foot in KNP incl 56 wild trails.200+ nights in the wildernessndloti-indigenous name for serval.

Scops - thanks very much for those photos. Welcome and keep up this quality of posts please.I could remember those Malelane "stable rooms" from about 55 years ago and this is the first photo I have seen of them. I was about 5 years old at the time and my parent's took us there a few times that I can specifically remember. Malelane being a gate camp was often the first nighter and I remember one trip that started at Malelane and ended at Punda Maria. One of the vehicles in the party had dry ice in the boot (like a giant coolbox) and that had the beers and meat on ice for at least a week. Many more recollections from that trip.

The old Lower Sabie reception, taken in 1981. The reception area was directly behind the old gates. The entrance was where the night drive vehicles park. The buildings are still there but don't seem to be used any more.